I don't think Dell is very serious about Linux. If Linux doesn't support DRM, well then, just use Windows.
"The entire Dell userbase" will NEVER be using Linux. Microsoft is way too pervasive for that to happen. More like "a small minority of the Dell userbase with cheap machines and perhaps less buying power."
I got addicted to math too, over the summer, when I was supposed to be writing a computer program for money. I actually like programming, but the instant it became a job and an obligation it turned annoying and bothersome. Instead, I would spend hours and hours and hours reading Loomis and Sternberg's Advanced Calculus text (great book, by the way) and doing all of the problem sets.
I don't exactly regret this, since I ended up learning a lot of math, but it really wreaked havoc on my productivity.
Of course, this is illegal under the Digital Millenium Fair Use Prevention Act. When the secret police come knocking at your door, don't be surprised. They have tiny cameras hidden in your home.
It's enigmatic because while these vectors are eigenfunctions of the Schroedinger equation, meaning that they represent a definite state, the sum of these two vectors is NOT an eigenfunction. It is weird that a particle simply walks around with a state not corresponding to any definite eigenstate. It is also weird that when you try to catch the particle in the act, the particles state collapses to that of one of the eigenstates of which it is in the superposition, with probability given by taken the scalar product with the eigenstate in question. This means that when not being measured, particles evolve according to the (deterministic) Schroedinger equation, while when the particles are measured they (randomly) perform a quantum leap into just one eigenstate, and then continue on their Schroedinger evolution.
This is a. Counterintuitive. How can these particles walk around with indefinite states? b. Disturbing. How does measurement make them choose a state; what is the privilidged status of measurement in the universe; does it have a true state? c. Mathematically sophisticated. The details of quantum mechanics require infinite-dimensional Hilbert space theory, much of which has been developed during the 20th century. Things like the spectral theorem are mathematically very difficult and are necessary for quantum mechanics. It is not true that people learn what a Hilbert space is in the first year of undergraduate mathematics. Hey, even people in their senior year of college might not know what it is, let alone how to use its properties.
Don't say quantum mechanics is simple. It is one of the strangest theories ever developed by science, and should be thrown out altogether as ridiculous, if it weren't for the fact that it explains observations very well.
I find this comment especially amusing because EMACS really IS an IDE; much more than any other text editor, even VIM. It does much more than any other program (period - what other program has a psychologist?). So saying that EMACS is easier than any IDE is not really saying anything.
Disclaimer: I don't actually use EMACS -- I find it pathologically complicated. Go VIM!
Still, there are potential pitfalls, including the possible loss of trust among employees for their organizations' own information-security staff. "My initial thoughts when I heard about it was 'Whoa, this sounds questionable,' " says David Jevans, chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an industry consortium. He says that although employers are within their rights to train their employees, companies should be careful before they intentionally use mock email on their customers. "You're playing with fire," he says. "Are people ever going to trust your email?" Mr. Jevans, chief executive of a computer-security firm called IronKey Inc., argues that technical methods for authenticating email are likely to be more effective than such user education.
I think these two methods can be complementary. Email correspondence within the company should ideally be signed, but this is often hard to enforce. Instead of saying "look how easily you were fooled," without providing an appropriate method of verifying authenticity, companies should be training employees to use encryption; the response should be "look what happens when you don't check the signature." This wouldn't cause employees to mistrust internal communication -- cryptographically signed messages are inherently trustworthy (up to a certain point).
Interestingly enough, this is the exact form of the pythagorean theorem in 3-space, where a, b, and c are the lengths of the sides of a rectangle, and d is the length of its diagonal. In fact, this formula generalizes to n dimensions, and defines what is known as the Euclidean 2-norm.
There's nothing "wrong" with sex. That doesn't mean there's nothing wrong with pornography. Pornography desensitizes kids to sex and trivializes it, so that when they get the real thing it doesn't come with the love and affection that it should come with. It encourages random sexual encounters and inconsistency. The problem with modern society is that sex ISN'T always something that happens between two people who like each other a lot; it is often just a form of entertainment. Sex should be a bond that holds people together, and it instead is becoming a wedge that drives them apart.
"I don't know how they reached that conclusion, after all, one need only look as far as Job's daughters antics in the book of Genesis to see that the Bible is no authority on sexual morality."
This is definitely the worst argument I have ever seen. Obviously you have not read said portion of the Bible -- it talks about the daughters of Lot. The moral of the story is first that their descendants were the nations Amon and Moav, who were morally corrupt, and second that Lot should not have lived near the sexual corruption of Sodom for so long. The Bible certainly depicts sex, but does this to reinforce ideas about sexual morality.
In fact, the Bible was pretty ahead of its times on sexual morality. King David kills Batsheva's husband and takes her as a wife, a pretty normal thing for a king to do at the time. However, he is punished heavily for his actions.
Now I'm not saying that you have to agree with everything that the Bible says about sex, but I think it is pretty clear that casual sex and pornography is harmful to society. I think that the fact that people are having sex pretty early, and more indiscriminately, means that sex and love are now things with much less significance and permanence.
Did pornography really help you in your sexual development? In what way? Did it make you more loving, more passionate? Did it make you have greater pleasure?
Not really true: if you order a mac mini, you can get 1GB of memory from newegg for 106: here
Then you can sell your old 512MB stick for about $30 on eBay (search for 'PC2700 512') (no, I wouldn't buy the memory off eBay to begin with)
Now you have only spent about $76, which is much less than the $157 that Apple charges (with the edu discount) for the 512->1 gb UPGRADE.
Not to mention the criminally overpriced memory from the Apple store: you can get 512 mb for a laptop for $59 on newegg
or for $150 from the Apple Store
Note that Apple does not list a PC2700 512MB module as being supported for the iBook G4, and will happily sell you the slower memory for the same price.
The disgusting thing about this is that I'm sure a lot of people don't realize that they don't have to buy their memory from Apple.
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I don't think Dell is very serious about Linux. If Linux doesn't support DRM, well then, just use Windows.
"The entire Dell userbase" will NEVER be using Linux. Microsoft is way too pervasive for that to happen. More like "a small minority of the Dell userbase with cheap machines and perhaps less buying power."
I got addicted to math too, over the summer, when I was supposed to be writing a computer program for money. I actually like programming, but the instant it became a job and an obligation it turned annoying and bothersome. Instead, I would spend hours and hours and hours reading Loomis and Sternberg's Advanced Calculus text (great book, by the way) and doing all of the problem sets.
I don't exactly regret this, since I ended up learning a lot of math, but it really wreaked havoc on my productivity.
Of course, this is illegal under the Digital Millenium Fair Use Prevention Act. When the secret police come knocking at your door, don't be surprised. They have tiny cameras hidden in your home.
It's enigmatic because while these vectors are eigenfunctions of the Schroedinger equation, meaning that they represent a definite state, the sum of these two vectors is NOT an eigenfunction. It is weird that a particle simply walks around with a state not corresponding to any definite eigenstate. It is also weird that when you try to catch the particle in the act, the particles state collapses to that of one of the eigenstates of which it is in the superposition, with probability given by taken the scalar product with the eigenstate in question. This means that when not being measured, particles evolve according to the (deterministic) Schroedinger equation, while when the particles are measured they (randomly) perform a quantum leap into just one eigenstate, and then continue on their Schroedinger evolution.
This is
a. Counterintuitive. How can these particles walk around with indefinite states?
b. Disturbing. How does measurement make them choose a state; what is the privilidged status of measurement in the universe; does it have a true state?
c. Mathematically sophisticated. The details of quantum mechanics require infinite-dimensional Hilbert space theory, much of which has been developed during the 20th century. Things like the spectral theorem are mathematically very difficult and are necessary for quantum mechanics. It is not true that people learn what a Hilbert space is in the first year of undergraduate mathematics. Hey, even people in their senior year of college might not know what it is, let alone how to use its properties.
Don't say quantum mechanics is simple. It is one of the strangest theories ever developed by science, and should be thrown out altogether as ridiculous, if it weren't for the fact that it explains observations very well.
I find this comment especially amusing because EMACS really IS an IDE; much more than any other text editor, even VIM. It does much more than any other program (period - what other program has a psychologist?). So saying that EMACS is easier than any IDE is not really saying anything.
Disclaimer: I don't actually use EMACS -- I find it pathologically complicated. Go VIM!
I think these two methods can be complementary. Email correspondence within the company should ideally be signed, but this is often hard to enforce. Instead of saying "look how easily you were fooled," without providing an appropriate method of verifying authenticity, companies should be training employees to use encryption; the response should be "look what happens when you don't check the signature." This wouldn't cause employees to mistrust internal communication -- cryptographically signed messages are inherently trustworthy (up to a certain point).
Presumably this arrest is carried out by the Chronology Protection Agency
Interestingly enough, this is the exact form of the pythagorean theorem in 3-space, where a, b, and c are the lengths of the sides of a rectangle, and d is the length of its diagonal. In fact, this formula generalizes to n dimensions, and defines what is known as the Euclidean 2-norm.
There's nothing "wrong" with sex. That doesn't mean there's nothing wrong with pornography. Pornography desensitizes kids to sex and trivializes it, so that when they get the real thing it doesn't come with the love and affection that it should come with. It encourages random sexual encounters and inconsistency. The problem with modern society is that sex ISN'T always something that happens between two people who like each other a lot; it is often just a form of entertainment. Sex should be a bond that holds people together, and it instead is becoming a wedge that drives them apart.
"I don't know how they reached that conclusion, after all, one need only look as far as Job's daughters antics in the book of Genesis to see that the Bible is no authority on sexual morality."
This is definitely the worst argument I have ever seen. Obviously you have not read said portion of the Bible -- it talks about the daughters of Lot. The moral of the story is first that their descendants were the nations Amon and Moav, who were morally corrupt, and second that Lot should not have lived near the sexual corruption of Sodom for so long. The Bible certainly depicts sex, but does this to reinforce ideas about sexual morality.
In fact, the Bible was pretty ahead of its times on sexual morality. King David kills Batsheva's husband and takes her as a wife, a pretty normal thing for a king to do at the time. However, he is punished heavily for his actions.
Now I'm not saying that you have to agree with everything that the Bible says about sex, but I think it is pretty clear that casual sex and pornography is harmful to society. I think that the fact that people are having sex pretty early, and more indiscriminately, means that sex and love are now things with much less significance and permanence.
Did pornography really help you in your sexual development? In what way? Did it make you more loving, more passionate? Did it make you have greater pleasure?
Not really true: if you order a mac mini, you can get 1GB of memory from newegg for 106: here
Then you can sell your old 512MB stick for about $30 on eBay (search for 'PC2700 512') (no, I wouldn't buy the memory off eBay to begin with) Now you have only spent about $76, which is much less than the $157 that Apple charges (with the edu discount) for the 512->1 gb UPGRADE. Not to mention the criminally overpriced memory from the Apple store: you can get 512 mb for a laptop for $59 on newegg or for $150 from the Apple Store
Note that Apple does not list a PC2700 512MB module as being supported for the iBook G4, and will happily sell you the slower memory for the same price.
The disgusting thing about this is that I'm sure a lot of people don't realize that they don't have to buy their memory from Apple.